You.com puts a price on its top Research tier: Frontier listed at $1,200 per 1k calls

You.com prices its Research API purely by research_effort tier. Every self-serve tier held steady in this capture — lite $12, standard $50, deep $100, exhaustive $450 per 1,000 calls — as did the Web Search API ($5.00/1k calls), the Contents API ($1.00/1k pages), and the Finance Research API (deep $110, exhaustive $500 per 1k calls).

The one card that moved is Frontier, the Contact-Sales top tier. It previously carried a deliberately open-ended ”>$2,000.00 /1k calls” label; it now shows a firm $1,200.00 /1k calls alongside the same “Maximum depth—our most powerful research tier” description. That is both a price cut at the top of the range and a transparency change: the highest-effort tier is now quotable before a sales conversation, narrowing the Research API’s intra-endpoint spread from an unbounded range to a definite 100x ($12 to $1,200). Frontier still does not appear in the Research API docs’ effort-level table, which lists only the four self-serve tiers.

The docs also added a no-signup trial path in this period: Search is now free to try over the MCP server at https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free, with no account required, alongside the standard $100 free credit for new accounts.